About the Book We fall. We fall for someone who doesn't catch feelings for us. We fall when we're not supposed to fall in love. We fall in a way we'd never be able to express it, no matter what. Sometimes, to love someone unconditionally without expecting to be loved in return, is the most exquisite feeling in the world. It is painful, but it gives you a dose of euphoria and heals you by the end of the day. It is that kind of love, where you take the pain as a base for your personal growth. La Douleur Exquise is a collection of poetry that celebrates unexpressed, unrequited, and unattainable love through the eyes of a woman. Just sit back and delve into the world of love where conditions don't apply. They never did. They never should. If there's something unconditional, it is love, after all...

"What happens when you meet your soul mate at the wrong time? What happens when you meet your soul mate but you aren't theirs?"la douleur exquise the exquisite pain of loving some unattainable.J.R. Rogue's bestselling debut poetry collection tells the tale of a once in a lifetime love unreturned.La Douleur Exquise can also be found in J.R. Rogue's All Of My Bullshit Truths: Collected Poems.

“What happens when you meet your soul mate at the wrong time? What happens when you meet your soul mate, but you aren’t theirs?” la douleur exquise: the exquisite pain of loving some unattainable Goodreads Choice Nominated poet J.R. Rogue’s debut poetry collection tells the tale of a once-in-a-lifetime love unreturned. These heartwrenching and soul-crushing poems are confessional while also being relatable. This collection will make you feel seen in all your heartbreak. “I will write stories about how we lost each other, because that’s the part I will never get over. That’s the part I know best.” The Exquisite Pain of the Unrequited was previously published as La Douleur Exquise, which translates to the exquisite pain.

'Startlingly original stories.' S Magazine 'Together they assert that love is more heart-breaking and transforming that the word necessarily conveys.' Observer Love is not a singular concept. In this collection, seven award-winning authors explore seven concepts of love: from Philautia, self-love, to Agape, love for humanity; and from Storge, a natural affection for family, to Mania, a frenzied, obsessive love. Seven authors; seven short stories; seven flashes of love. 'Nobody has ever measured, not even poets, how much the heart can hold.' Zelda Fitzgerald This paperback edition of How Much the Heart Can Hold includes the winning short story from the SceptreLoves short story Prize.

J.R. Rogue has self-published five novels and ten poetry collections. Several of her poetry collections have become bestsellers, including Tell Me Where It Hurts, La Douleur Exquise, and Exits, Desires, & Slow Fires, two of which were also Goodreads Choice Nominees for poetry. In her latest book of poems, I’m Not Your Paper Princess, the author focuses on love, heartache, and continuously discovering old truths in new ways.

Over the last two decades, Sophie Calle has made it her business to follow, peek into and illuminate the lives of people she barely knows, with results that both illustrate human vulnerability and tend not infrequently to pathos.

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"The Book of Masks" by Remy de Gourmont (translated by Jacob Howard Lewis). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

On the verge of becoming a vampire, Manolito De La Cruz is called back to his Carpathian homeland and unexpectedly finds his destined lifemate, MaryAnne Delaney, who has no idea of the lengths that Manolito will go to to keep his mate.

Fragmented, buried, and largely lost, the classical past presents formidable obstacles to anyone who would seek to know it. 'Deep Classics' is the study of these obstacles and, in particular, of the way in which the contemplation of the classical past resembles – and has even provided a model for – other kinds of human endeavor. This volume offers a new way to understand the modalities and aims of Classics itself, through the ages. Its individual chapters draw fruitful connections between the reception of the classical and current concerns in philosophy of mind, cognitive theory, epistemology, media studies, sense studies, aesthetics, queer theory and eco-criticism. What does the study of the ancient past teach us about our encounters with our own more recent but still elusive memories? What do our always partial reconstructions of ancient sites tell us about the limits of our ability to know our own world, or to imagine our future? What does the reader of the lacunose and corrupted literatures of antiquity learn thereby about literature and language themselves? What does a shattered statue reveal about art, matter, sensation, experience, life? Does the way in which these vestiges of the past are encountered – sitting in a library, standing in a gallery, moving through a ruin – condition our responses to them and alter their significance? And finally, how has the contemplation of antiquity helped to shape seemingly unrelated disciplines, including not only other humanistic and scientific epistemologies but also non-scholarly modes and practices? In asking these and similar questions, Deep Classics makes a pointed intervention in the study of the classical tradition, now more widely known as 'reception studies'.